I may be a bit late to the party with this observation, but web design is finally evolving. Mobile phones and tablets have freed us from having to use a laptop or desktop to use the web. Using HTML and CSS, designers can now use media queries to control how a site appears on different …
I’m working on a mobile web site and one of the things that can be done to make it more usable is to make targets larger, so that user’s don’t have to be as accurate to trigger an event. It is an application of Fitt’s Law. In this case, I was trying to make the …
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The single easiest improvements you can make to the usability of HTML Forms is to correctly use LABELs. And it helps all users, not just a subset. Its also a nice application of Fitt’s Law s Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible | 456 Berea Street When checkboxes and radio buttons …
Of course, you know I’m going to tell you to install Firefox 2.0 once its released, and I don’t have a windows XP machine so no trying out the newly released IE7. By the way, did you see that security vulnerabilities were already found for IE7, less than 24 hours after its release? I’m using …
Nielsen has a better than usual alertbox today trying to dispel the Misconceptions about Usability. One of his points really resonated with me regarding the tensions that can exist between creativity and usability. Design is basically problem solving under constraints: you must design a system that can actually be built, that’s within budget, and that …